> Isn't it the caller further up the stack that knows best what to do? Often yes (one of the exceptions being a simple die() routine that cleans up only global

> Isn't it the caller further up the stack that knows best what to do? Often yes (one of the exceptions being a simple die() routine that cleans up only global state). It's just pseudocode, and in real code you will often not call any functions in the exception handling block.